The Sun. — London, England, 1838-12-14 00:00:00

SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. We refer to a letter in another column on a subject which has created no little alarm in the metropolis, the supposed intention of allowing a delivery of letters on Sun day. The alarm must be groundless, for no Statesman would think of countenancing an alteration which would lead to an unnecessary desecration of the Sabbath. A re quisition was yesterday presented to the Lord Mayor by a number of members of the Common Council, suggesting the propriety of his calling an early meeting of the Court of Common Council, to consider the expediency of the proposed alteration ; and his Lordship, who expressed himself as decidedly opposed to a Sunday delivery of letters, stated that he should appoint an early day for the consider ation of the subject. Were the citizens of London to be foolish enough to accede to this alteration, the conse quence would soon be that from the beginning to the end of the year there would be no intermission of toil. The delivery of letters would lead by degrees to the perform ance of the same business on Sunday which is performed on the other days of the week. The merchant who neg lected to attend to his letters on that day might find that a rival had obtained the start of him in some important busi ness, and various motives would induce him to attend his counting-house on Sundays, and to force his clerks also to attend. All other men of business would be similarly cir cumstanced. This is a Christian country, and we trust that it will preserve its character. There are exceptions to the rule of sanctifying the Sabbath, which are connived at because society would otherwise be subjected to great inconvenience. The Sabbath was made for man, and not man for the Sabbath. We are not of the number of those gloomy precisians who would make the Sabbath a day of mortification—who would con fine men who have toiled six days in the week to their houses on the seventh, and deny them the most innocent indulgences. But we hold it of the utmost importance, even in a temporal point of view, that the Sabbath be not profaned by unnecessary labour. One day is not too much to allow men to meditate on the great end of their being, and to forget their worldly cares. The machine cannot be constantly wound up. Every religious man, nay every pru dent man, ought to set his face against any uncalled-for en croachment on the Sabbath. Why should this earth be converted into a valley of tears, by yielding to the demands of a short-sighted avarice ?—slforning Chronicle. We make the following extract from an Essex Paper : " IMPORTANT TO RAILWAY TRAVELLERS.—Mr. John Rat cliffe Chapman, residing at Long Marston, near the Pendley station, and who is contractor for the Aylesbury line of rail road, took a second class ticket at Birmingham station to come to Pendley station, on Tuesday, the 21st ult. Mr. Chapman showed his ticket to a servant of the Company at Birming ham, who directed him into the carriage, from which be alighted at Pendley station. On alighting he presented the ticket, and was told that he had come in a first-class carriage, and must pay ss. 6d. additional. That gentleman has, through either the ignorance or malignity of the fellow, been put to the expense of 21., by way of penalty, and 12s. Ga. costs, be sides anxiety and other unpleasantries." We regret to hear repeated complaints of a similar descr;,9tion of the Railway communications. The com plaints s„,necified, and which may be almost constantly seen in tto metropolitan and country papers, are of rudeness on the part of Railway servants to passengers, of unnecessary inconveniences inflicted by their over bearing conduct, and of occasional alteration of the hours of starting the trains, without giving adequate notice to the public of the period of the change. These are the allegations made. We do not mean that they are sustained or proved in all cases. It may happen that where incivility has been complained of, the passenger may sometimes have himself to blame, either by making overweening demands or litigious objections. However, there is a sufficient amount of ascertained fact as to in conveniences sustained by the public at large, through change of hours and consequent delay of delivery of let ters and parcels, as well as individual inconveniences sus tained by passengers, to warrant the public, before the meeting of Parliament, in directing their attention to the contingent evils ; which, if not arrived at present at their full growth, may in future reach a high pitch of oppres sive maturity, through the increase of these new commu nications. The public have a right to contemplate the time when all the lines of social or commercial commu nication throughout the country may be in the hands of the directors of the railways. 'rho new creation of such a monopoly is no trivial matter. If at present, in the face of the old turnpike-road competition, such stretches of authority can be exhibited or contem plated as those which (whether truly or falsely) have been alleged against them, what will be the consequence when all competition by the old stage-coach or old turn pike-road of any kind shall be driven out of the field ? The general impression is that the Legislature should immedi ately take up the question, and that the Government should be prepared to apply a remedy. It should be done quickly, on the principle of the sensible adage—obsta principiis ; and, under that impression it is our opinion that the enactment of some stringent law for the regula tion of railway conveyances should be one of the earliest measures of the ensuing Session. In granting new and large powers to the projectors of railways, Parliament has certainly not shown sufficient foresight in providing against such results as we have suggested. Let us only contemplate for a moment the idea of a powerful monopoly being able to charge to every traveller what it pleases, and to exercise the power of restrictin ,, the times and seasons of locomo tion. Such a state of things would be intolerable. The despotic system of French passports would be child's play to the social slavery which it might thus introduce : Morning Advertiser. We take leave to impress upon all whom it may concern —that is, all who have labouring people at small wages in their employment—that if their circumstances will by any means afford it, an increase of wages at the present time is equally demanded by humanity, by justice, and by sound policy. In general the wages of mere labourers are no more than will afford them support at the ordinary prices of necessaries of life. They might, perhaps, save something by extraordinary thrift, but, if they have done so, it is hard that they should not be able to keep this little fund for the periods of sickness and old age. A remarkable rise in the price of provisions produces an alteration in the labourer's circumstances, of which employers ought to endeavour to mitigate the severity. Every man should so far consider himself in a kind of partnership with those he employs, as not to allow them to bear all the hardship which occasionally arises out of circum stances over which they can have no control. We do not here plead for such as is wages quite sufficient to enable them to lay by in orditp..ry times a provision for such times as the present. We do not ask indulgence for men who habitually waste in filthy sottishness a great deal more than would make up the difference between cheap bread and dear bread for their families ; but labourers in the country who get but from ten to fourteen shillings a-week, and who have—many of them—families to support, ought to be con sidered when bread is so dear as it is at present. Nor is an increase of wages all that we would venture to recom mend. An exercise of kindly sympathy, an endeavour on the part of masters to show their labourers that they are mindful of them—that they are sensible of the fact of being their fellow-creatures—something of this kind must do good to all parties, must cause hardship to be borne with more of patience, and benevolence to be exercised with less of grudging.—Morning Post. Firmly believing the decision of Sir Herbert Jenner, in e case of Breeks v. Woolfrey, as far as its affects the question of prayers for the dead, to be as wrong a decision (of course unintentionally so) as ever was pronounced by fallible human judge, yet we cannot regard it in the light in which it is looked upon by a correspondent of the Stan dard, as having " inflicted on the Church of England the most serious blow that it sustained since the days of Laud." A blow aimed at the Church from without is very different in its effects from error and corruption exist ing within the Church itself. Laud was one of the conse crated guardians of the reformed faith, as professed by the Church of England, who, from within the bosom the sacred establishment, w h ose pur i ty of doctrinehehaodf solemnly vowed at the altar of God to uphold and maintain inviolate, sought to counteract the reformation, and adulterate the truth as it is in Holy Scripture, with the rejected errors of human invention. Laud, a n d prelates like Laud, unfaithful to their sacred trust, whether their doctrines savour of the Arian, the Popish, or the Socinian heresy, can inflict injury upon the Church which no external hostility or error can effect. They can injure the character of the establishment by engrafting fallacy on its truth, by mixing the adultera tions of man's corrupt invention with the livin g waters of Scriptural instruction, and poisoning the fountain o f Christian knowledge even within the pale of the sanctuary. What human power not clothed with the authority of the Church itself can do this? None. 'The Judge in the Ecclesiastical Court, who erroneously pronounces a decision declaring a Popish superstition not to be contrary to the doctrines of the Reformed Church of England, cannot thereby make that " vain and superstitious practice" part and parcel of these doctrines henceforth, any more than he can engraft it on that most solemn and beautiful service of our Church, the " order for the burial of the dead," which edifies the living with the sublime consolations of the faith, and, like an inspired hymn of Christian triumph, celebrates over the perishing dust of man the victory that takes its sting from death, and crowns the mortal with immortality. The doctrine with regard to the dead in the Church of England is the scriptural doctrine that is illustrated by the figurative expression, " as the tree falls so it must lie." That of the Church of Rome is a doc trine found nowhere in Scripture, and which is perfectly consistent with the other unscriptural doctrine of purga tory, and indeed grows out of it. " Blessed are the dead which die in the Lord," says the Church of England, adopt ing the language of the Apostle to whom that was declared ;n a voice from heaven ; " even so saith the Spirit, for they rest from their labours." But the Church of Rome says that there exists an intermediate state for the soul between that of heavenly rest and eternal condemnation, and that human prayers are very efficacious in mitigating the tor ments of purgatory, and shortening the period of the soul's sojourn in that place of temporary darkness and misery. This doctrine has brought great gains to the Romish Church, by the purchase, for gold and silver and broad acres, of masses and prayers for the deliverance of the soul from " the adamantine chains and penal fire" of purgatorial probation. The Church of England regards such masses and prayers as mere " superstitious uses," and forbids them as unscriptural. It is an enriching superstition to the Church of Rome, and therefore it clings, and will ever cling to it, with the desperate devotion with which it ad heres to every one of its Mamrnonite inventions. This is not the place to enter, theologically, into this question. We leave that duty to the clergy of our holy Church, who, we trust, will not let the present opportunity pass without proving from the pulpit that the practice of " praying for the dead" does not, and never did, attach to the truly re formed Church of England. As the highest common-law judges are sometimes mistaken as to what is the law of civil society in this country, and their solemn judgments reversed, so an ecclesiastical judge may err as to what is really the rule and practice of the spiritual constitution to which the Protestants of the Establishment are bound to conform. It is for the clergy to show, and they who are not slothful or faithless pastors of the flock will show it, that Sir Herbert Jenner has fallen unconsciously into a lamentable error in imputing to the Church of the Re formed faith a practice which implies a tendency towards the encouragement of the purgatorial fiction—a superstition which can be historically traced even beyond the popedom, as many other Romish superstitions can, to the days of pagan antiquity ; for both Plato and Plutarch have allu sions to something of the nature of a state of purgatorial probation after death to purify the souls of the departed from remediable or venial sins. Indeed Cardinal Bellar mine, in his work on purgatory, is candid enough to admit the testimony of such pagan witnesses as Plato, Cicero, and Virgil in this matter. But what has the Church of Eng land to do with the Limbus patrum, or the Limbus in fautum p Just as much as it has to do with that other intermediate place for departed souls, which is described by some Romish Doctors as a place of repose and delight for the soul before entering upon eternal felicity—a place of beautiful flowery meadows without the gates of Paradise, and evidently only a renovation of the pagan poet's Elysian fields. It may be a natural emotion of tie human heart, uninstructed by Scripture, to pray for the felicity of those in death whom it loved in life ; and it is also natural to the infirmity of man to purchase with worldly treasure, when upon the verge of the grave, an exemption from a state of penal probation, or a mitigation of its torments, if he has once been induced to believe that such a state as that which the word " purgatory" signifies intervenes between the grave and the eternal abiding-place of the soul. But the mind enlightened by Scriptural truth knows that this intermediate state rests only on the clouds and vanity of human invention, and that although it has brought sub stantial riches to the papal treasury, it has no more exist ence than any pagan fiction. Disbelieving, rejecting, and denouncing the fable of purgatory, how could the reformed Church of England cultivate and encourage the prac tice of "prayers for the dead," which springs as natu rally out of it as the branch of the tree from its stein It may serve as a specimen of the extraordinary shifts to which those Government journals are obliged to have recourse that want to fasten this papal practice of prayers for the dead on the Church of England, for the purpose of lowering its scriptural character, that Mr. Baron Alderson exhorted a murderer whom he sentenced to pray for the soul of the man whom he had sent unprepared into the pre sence of his Creator. We dare say what Baron Alderson said has been misrepresented but if not, we can only ob serve,that that Learned Judge is a better authority in law than in theology. When we hear any Prelate of the Esta blishment so express himself, wo shall then begin to think that the spirit of Laud has revisited the Church, and that the faith which was purified in the flames in which the martyrs of the Reformation perished, is again becoming defiled by the influence of a state policy, which labours to bring the Vatican nearer to St. James's, while it in flicts " a heavy blow and great discouragement on Protes tantism."—Morning Herald. On Wednesday se'nnight, this village was visited by the severest storm ever remembered by the oldest inhabi tant. The river Monnow rose to a fearful height, carrying away in its course hedges, trees, &c., and entering several houses in the vicinity of the river, but happily no lives were lost. A most singular and ludicrous occurrence happened to a goose, the property of a farmer, whose house lay near the river. The goose was lifted by the water to the top of a tree, about 20 feet above the bed of the river, and was found quietly resting in that situation after the storm had abated.—Her eford Times. DROWNING A Fisit.—The ravenous nature of a shark, and his great strength, are well known, and yet divers in the East Indian pearl fisheries think little of at tacking him, armed with a strong piece of wood, sharpened at both ends. Thus armed they await his opening his en ormous mouth, and then trust to their arm holding the wood perpendicularly, and his mouth being thus kept ex tended he drowns. LORD DURHAM.—The Address presented to Lord Durham on his landing here was neither more nor less than an appeal to the spirit of his former declarations, when he was the avowed advocate of Household Suffrage, Vote by Ballot, and Triennial Parliaments. Without hos tility to the present Government, the Radicals naturally turn to Lord Durham, with hope and with confidence, ex pecting him to impart energy to an Administration whose fault is tameness in following out right and liberal inten tions, rather than the want of such intentions. Much as Lord ,Durham may have to complain of the pre. sent Government for its tacit acquiescence in the insult and injury inflicted on him by Lord Brougham and the Tory Lords, he is not the man to reta liate in a malignant and vindictive party spirit. And so far from desiring to exasperate him against Ministers, we are convinced that the Radicals generally wish only to endeavour to stimulate the lax Whigs to bold and decisive measures. What the thorough Reformers most ardently long to witness, is cordiality and co-operation among such men as Lord John Russell, Lord Brougham, and Lord Durham, instead of finding them run counter and quarrel, amid the ridicule of their and the people's common foes. Necessity, as well as inclination, will, we trust, bring a ll three once more together, to labour earnestly side by side in their and our common cause.—Devonport Independent. The Dumfries Courier, referring to Lord Durham's enthusiastic reception at Devonport, and the wa i v i ng o f . his salute, originally contemplated deference to official etiquette, well observes that " moral is better than physical artillery ; and if no guns greeted his arrival, there were voices that thundered the loudest acclaim." Alter some further remarks on the same subject, however, the Courier censures Sir William Molesworth for being at Devonport, asserts that he was an unbidden guest, and rails away against the Hon. Member in a sty le of comment which we think far less reasonable and liberal than unjust and acri monious. On Wednesday a ballot was taken at the East India House for the election of a Director, in the room of Sir James Rivett Carnac, Bart., who has disqualified. At six o'clock the glasses were closed and delivered to the scruti neers, who reported the election had fallen on Martin Tucker Smith, Esq. SHOOTING AT POACIIERS.—In the High Court of Justiciary, Edinburgh, last week, Mr. James Duncan Kennedy was tried on a charge of having wilfully and mali ciously discharged one or both barrels of a double-bar relled gun at the persons of David Fridge and Alexander Fridge, house-carpenters, residing near 'Fain, on the sth of September, at a cottage occupied by Norman Smart, at or near Woodbank. under the said Mr. Duncan Kennedy, and thereby wounded David and Alexander Bridge, to the serious injury of their persons. The indictment was laid at common law, and also under the Act 10 George IV., c. 48, which constitutes such offences capital, The Jury found a verdict against the prisoner, but not with the intention of doing any grievous bodily harm. Mr. Ken nedy was sentenced to eight months' imprisonment in Edin burgh Gaol. Not a day has passed for several years without a stout middle-aged man being seen to walk hastily up to the Post-office, thrust into the box a piece of earthen ware, wood, or tobacco-pipe (which he evidently supposes to be a letter), and then run away, as if he feared detec tion. It is clear the poor fellow cannot write, but when ever the surface of his supposed letters will admit, they arc covered with unintelligible marks, and when the box is closed h e l eaves them in the window. The authorities at the P ost - o ffi ce, perceiving that the light of reason has flitted from the poor fellow's brow, and being but slightly annoyed by their daily visitor, have not interfered with him ; but still the poor fellow's hasty movements would seem to infer that he had not always been treated with such in difference. What makes the circumstance more remarka ble is the feet that the poor fellow resides either at Ayles tone or Knighton, more than two miles from the Post a per son i n h um bl e lif e, an d as office. He is apparently such would seem not to have had much to do with letters, but perhaps at some period of his life m a y have had that to do with one letter which has deprived him of his senses. perhaps some of our readers can inform us of the cause of the poor fellow's madness:—Leicester Mercury. On Wednesday morning a respectable female, aged sson-grove, St. Mary lebone, inher bed. When she went 61, residing at 24, O rkett-street, Li and spirits. bed on the previous night thedeceased was In health perfect, POLICII INTELLIGENCE. MANSION-HO USE. Mr. Hobler, jun., appeared before the Lord Mayor for the purpose of placing before his Lordship a declaration made before a notary by sixteen or seventeen of the Prus sians who had on the preceding day applied to his Lordship on the subject of their engagements with Mr. Bernhard Ries, of Moorgate-street, to go to Demerara as agricul turists and mechanics. The declaration set forth that the appearers were natives of Germany, under the Prussian Government, that they had lately arrived at London under certain engagements made by them in Germany with Doctor Strecker, acting as agent and on behalf of Bernhard Ries, of London, whereby they had agreed to proceed to Demerara, and there fulfil the engagement and enter into a contract to serve Mr. Ries or his assigns for three years ; that they were dissatisfied with the arrangements, and in answer to questions put by the notary, first, whether they were will ing to proceed to the destination under an indenture signed by Doctor Strecker, and to be ratified in a satis factory manner before the Lord Mayor, or, secondly, whe ther they should prefer to be sent back to their native country at the expense of the parties who induced them to leave it ? To the first of these questions they severally answered in the negative, and to the second they answered in the affirmative. Mr. Hobler stated that the names of the men were sub scribed, and the document was regularly witnessed. He then stated that at a former period application had been made by the Brazilian Government to the Prussian autho rities for permission to 100 Prussian agriculturists and mechanics to repair to the Brazils, upon the security of good pay and treatment, and without a farthing of expense to Prussia. The answer, however, was in the negative, and stated that as the Prussians were all soldiers, their presence in the event of any hostile movement would be indispensable. The LORD MAYOR—And the Prussians were not allowed to go to the Brazils ? Mr. Hobler, jun., replied that they certainly were not, although the Brazilian Government would have indemnified the Prussian authorities against the possibility that the men should become a future incumbrance. The LORD MAYOR—I have received a letter from the Wurtemburg authorities, stating that four of the subjects of Wurtemburg were under similar circumstances with respect to Mr. Ries, and were desirous of returning home, and empowering the Prussian Consul to deal with them as he had dealt with his own countrymen. The Prussian Consul said that he willingly took upon himself the task of disposing of the four men. The LORD MAYOR said - that the Prussian Consul was certainly right in interfering in the case of his countrymen. Mr. Hobler, jun., said that the average pay was to have been eight dollars a month after they had ratified their contracts at Demerara, and if they found that it would be ineligible to remain, each person would be obliged to pay the sum of 20/. before he could return home. Where, he asked, were men under such circumstances to procure 201. a piece ? The consequence would be that they would be obliged to remain. The Prussian Consul said that men so situated could not leave the place in which there was a demand upon them. Those, however, who were determined to go, be would, of course, not attempt to influence. THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 14, 1838 MARYLEBOAE. Yesterday, William Carton, a well-dressed middle-aged man, was charged before Mr. Hoskins with having forged and uttered a bill of exchange for 501., purporting to be accepted by a lady named Seller, re s idi ng at Ch ester. The principal witness against the prisoner was a Miss Mitcham, of Seymour-street, Somers -town ; from whose statement it appeared that she was formerly upon very in timate terms with the prisoner, who, in October, 1833, forged and negotiated the bill in question. The bill, afie r passing through various hands, was ultimately taken up about nine months ago by Miss Mitcham, who did not know where to find the prisoner until the previous day, when, meeting with him in the neighbourhood of her residence, she called a constable and gave him in charge. Mr. Bozon, a solicitor, said that his client had been scan dalously used by the defendant, who had left her, leaving her to pay the bill in question and other incumbrances, and he wished to be allowed a few days in order to bring for ward Mrs. Seller, the lady whose name the prisoner had forged to the bill which was here produced. After some deliberation the prisoner was ultimately held to bail for his appearance on Tuesday next. UNION-HALL. Yesterday a drunken driver of a cab named Conwick was brought up, charged with driving a Mr. Levy in a con trary direction to that ordered. Mr. Levy lives in Gros venor-place, whither he desired to be conveyed, but the fellow drove about the Borough. Mr. SWABEY asked the defendant to produce his license and badge, but the latter having said that he had neither one nor the other, the Magistrate immediately fined him 51. and costs, and in default of payment committed him. THAMES-OFFICE. Yesterday John Gibbons, a waterman, known by the cog nomen of Scandalous Jack, was brought before Mr. Ballan tine and Mr. Broderip, on a charge of having, in conjunc tion with two others in custody, smuggled a large quantity of tobacco. Two others, James Borrett and Samuel Vincent, alias Winson, were afterwards put to the bar with Gibbons. After evidence in proof of the charge, Mr. BRODERIP said the case was fully made out against the two first named, and the Bench had no alternative but to pass the sentence of the law, which was that the prisoner do pay a fine of 1001. to the Queen, and be imprisoned until it was paid. He must apply to the Board of Customs for a remission of the punishment, and if there were any circumstances in the case which would justify any leniency being shown the Commissioners of Customs would no doubt reduce the fine. Mr. Cook, of the Customs' Solicitor's-office, said that no orders had been given by the Board to reduce the penalty. The prisoner was an old offender, and the law must take its course. Mr. BALLANTINE said this case was part of another transaction in which Gibbons had participated. Borrett and Vincent, alias IVinson, whose family are well-known smuggler s , were th en p u t t o the bar. Theinculpatory evidence having been completed, the Magistrates inquired if the necessary informations had been prepared ag a i ns t th e p r i soners ? M r . C oo k said the pri soners had only been recently captured, and that he had not had time to report the case to the Board. Mr. BRODERIP then said he should detain tile prisoners until this day, when they will bo again brought up for final examination. DEATH FROM GLANDERS.—Last week an old man, an ostler in Musselburgh, died of this horrible dis ease. He had been employed in training a horse which was affected with it, and unfortunately pricked his thumb below the nail ; the thumb swelled, and was treated as a case of whitlow. When too late, the true nature of the disease was discovered ; and in turning the poor man before his death, the flesh actually dropped off various parts of his body. This is the third or fourth instance, within these few months, of death from this horrible dis ease.—Glasgow Chronicle. So great is the opposition at present between the coaches on the Bath and Bristol road, that some of them are carrying passengers from London to Bristol for 12s. in side and 6s. out. On Saturday morning, about ten o'clock, as the Bushey coach was passing up the Edgevrare-road, the fore wheel flew off, and the coach came to the ground with a loud crash. There were three passengers besides the coachman, all of whom escaped with a few slight bruises, except Mr . Denley, the master of the Commercial Boarding-school at Bushey, who had his thigh crushed in a dreadful manner. The unfortunate gentleman was immediately taken to the Western General Dispensary, Lisson-grove, where he re mains in a state of considerable danger. CHARTISTS.—On Friday evening last a meet i ng was held in Kelso. We are again constrained to remind our friendi belonging to the working classes thae, whilst we fully sympathiso with them in their distresses andprivations, arising from the existence of monopolies and drawbacks upon the exerci?e of their industrial capital -whilst we deem most of them to be acting from the purest motives, and from perfect conviction —whilst we - would eschew talking light l y of a large, influential, and re spegt4bla class of our fello vv -citizens—whil s t we o b serve the pressmre ot iniflpitous laws, which are goading th em to madness—and tb4t tli , e ;*eie,ted few are forbidding the working classes to feel tiot ‘ Weariness • • • • Can snore upon the flint, when restive sloth FirOs the down pillow h ard " — Yet we again and h .gain say, that the doctrine of Universal Suffrage is not, as according to their notions, founded on natural, inherent, and indefeasible right_least o f all i s it founded on expediency in the existing circumstan ces of this country. Bat we have shown the untenability of the doctrine of Universal guffrAge, in an article under the head of " Review of Politica 4 0 Li teraturo and, regretting that in England at least, such men as Feargua O'Qpnpor, Stephens, and gastler, have been ab!e y to lead astray so many of the population.—Kelso Ch ron i c l e . On Sunday evening, about baifTpait eight ? A oung woman was seen by several pe rsons to p reci p itat e herself from the top of Blackfriars-bridge into the river, and after wards to cling to a piece of timber, that bad been pl ace d there in PDTl . 494e9,ap of the repa ir s now going on. H er shrieks attracted the aiteaio of ,39FT 9t . ermen belong ing to the Thames Police, who immealatefy put tk her assistance, and succeeded in rescuing her from a watery grave, after she had been immersed for upwards of a quarter of 4P hog: MONEY AND CITY NEWS. (FROM THE MORNING PAPERS OF THIS DAY.) TIMES.—As a result of the notice for temporary ac commodation at the Bank issued on the 29th ult., it may be stated that very few applications have been made for advances on the security of Exchequer Bills and India Bonds, since money could have been obtained on them in the interval which has elapsed on lower terms. Much available capital has been indeed at hand for such purpose, sometimes as low as 21 per cent., and never higher that: 3 per cent., while the Bank requires 31 per cent. to be paid for such loans. The Directors have therefore departed from a very important principle in the manage ment of their affairs without deriving any advantage from so doing. In the commercial discount market, on the contrary, which is their legitimate sphere, the accom modation has proved useful, and has been profited by, as is understood, to a very considerable extent. This should be a warning to keep to such a course in fu ture. The loans, if judiciously managed, and founded on actual business, the most secret operations of which are within their reach, cannot be attended with any serious risk whatever, and should it be required, in order to guard against too great an exportation of gold, or the effects of over-speculation out of doors, to curtail the issues, they have only to restrain the discounts temperately and care fully, and the whole, or any part, will gradually come back to them without creating the least alarm in the public mind, to which any sale of Government securities by the Bank would infallibly lead. Altogether, from the state of the foreign exchanges, and particularly those on the North of Europe, there must be some drain on the country for gold, which of it self will curtail the circulation, bank-notes being the me dium by which it is to be obtained, and thus increase the utility and the safety of those facilities especially devoted to commercial purposes. 'l'he Bank of England is consequently kept in as safe a position as can be desired, but it would ap pear from many circumstances which necessarily fall under the observation of the money-dealers in this market, whither, as to a common centre, all great transactions tend, that the joint-stock banks of issue in most parts of the country are running a race of competition in getting out paper, and that they exercise no sound discretion whatever in the nature of the security taken for it. In the event of a sudden alarm or pressing demand for money, few of them, though substantial enough at bottom, would be found immediately convertible, and it need not to be told to those acquainted with the nature of banking, that no capital can protect against a run, unless employed in such a manner as to be readily called in again if wanted. If this is the case with the English Banks, those in Ireland, if the information of the best money-dealers is to be taken, are in a still worse condition, while the (chartered) Bank of Ireland, like that of England, is playing a cautious and safe game. None of the Joint-stock Banks are to expect, therefore, that they will receive aid,if a storm should come on, from either. What occurred in 1836, in the memorable affair of the Northern and Central Bank, cannot be relied on as a safe precedent, for it is well known that among the motives for the support then given, good will to the parties had no share, and that the fear of consequences elsewhere was the true cause of the interference. 'Were it even otherwise, the Bank Directors complain, and with justice, of having been disingenuously dealt with and deceived in the whole of those transactions, and may fairly enough determine in future, if they deem it safe to do so, to leave these indis creet dabblers in paper issues to their fate. In some quar ters this will be taken as a timely and salutary caution ; in others it will be ridiculed as unnecessary ; but it is proper, nevertheless, to give it. Since the formation of the German customs' league the inclination of Prussia to induce the different states composing it to adopt as an uniform basis of currency the Prussian coinage and to establish a Prussian paper circulation has been sufficiently ap parent. The project does not appear to have yet suc ceeded, as a go o d deal of jealousy naturally exists with respect to the virtual transfer of that portion of the rights of sovereignty which consists in a control over coinage and circulation. In the meantime the Prussian Government is adopting cautiously all the preliminary mea sures for attracting to Berlin as a centre the money busi ness of Germany. After a recent announcement by the Administration of the Public Debt, that on the 2d of January it will be redeemed or paid off to the amount of 831,000 thalers, there is a notice that the Royal Bank of Berlin has come to the determination of opening to the mercantile community " accounts current," by means of which those who choose may place gratuitously bills of ex change, daily falling due, or certificates of public funds. In case the holders have occasion for the amount on or be fore being placed to account, the Bank will advance to the extent of 90 per cent. on Prussian stocks, and 75 per cent. on foreign funds, calculated on the prices current of the day. In this manner, it is stated, facilities will be afforded to commerce at any moment for procuring funds on deposit of state stocks. CHRONICLE.—There has been a strong impression in the City to-day that the Dutch and Belgian question will not be settled without having recourse to arms, and this feeling has been much strengthened by the accounts from Holland and Belgium, which state that on both sides reinforcements were marching to the garrisons on the frontier. This occasioned some uneasiness in the English Stock-market. Exchequer Bills remain at 645. to 665. prem. W e have received from a well-informed correspondent the following communication, on a subject alluded to in the City article of yesterday : " The remarks in the Chronicle of this day (City article) on the subject of the Coffee duty, exhibit a very incorrect view of the case. " The duty upon coffee certified to be the produce of British India, was, previous to the 9th September, 1835, 9d. per lb., and not Is. 3d.; but since that date has been only 6d. per lb., the same rate as is paid on %Vest India coffee. Since this reduction the quantity imported from British India has been nearly doubled, having been in 1835, 5,8 58,6501b5., and in 1837, 9,915,7091b5., and there is good reason for believing that the quantity may be increased almost indefinitely. It takes about three years to bring a coffee plantation into bearing." HERALD.—The advices which have been received from Holland and Belgium to-day, as well as those which have arrived in the course of the past few days, have ac quired much more interest here, in consequence of their continued reference to the celebrated Luxemburg question, which seems to be as much a point of questio vexata as it was a year since. In fact the accounts are altogether looked upon as decidedly warlike on the part of the Belgian Go vernment, since the Minister of War has demanded a con tingent of 111,000 men for the army, and a levy of 12,000 for the year 1839, of the Chambers, haring also given orders for arming the citadel of Antwerp and the sur rounding forts. It is also stated, on the authority of a Belgian correspondent of the Handelsblad, that the Minister of War would demand a credit of 12,000,000 of francs from the Chambers, which amounts to about 480,0001. sterling, at par, in lieu of the credit he had asked of 3,500,000 francs, to be raised by an addi tionaltax of 10 centimes upon taxable property. The larger credit is to be raised as a forced loan, by compelling the landowners to pay a year's additional land tax in advance, in exchange for which they will receive Treasury Bonds to circulate throughout the coming year. The movement of a portion of the Belgian troops upon Maestricht has also created much attention here, whilst the arrival of the in augural address of the King of the French to the Cham bers on their meeting is also anxiously anticipated, though it is expected that Louis Philippe will throw the onus of his real but masked intentions respecting Belgium upon the Chambers. These circumstances, as our monetary com ments will show, have had the effect of causing more hea viness in the British Funds and the Dutch Stocks, inas much as it has created more than usual uneasiness. The aspects of our Corn Market are by no means en couraging to the capitalists of the Money Market, however they ma y be to the prospects of the speculators in c orn . The state of affairs on the Continent has had very con siderable influence on all the foreign securities, and there appears to have been a great desire on the part of the pub lic and jobbers to get out of stock. post --The aggregate of the wheat averages, as de clared to-day for the regulation of the duty, was 735. per quarter for the week ending the 7th instant. The ports are con sequently again open to the importers upon the pay of the nominal rate of Is. per quarter only. The aver age for the week ending the same day was 7.55. 6d. per quarter. It had been expected that the rate of duty estab lished by the averages just struck would be 2s. tad. per 4 - 44 rter. Few persons seem to have anticipated a return tie the lower rate until next week. The funds have not been s o favourably quot e d to-day‘ The news from Belgium seems to h ave thrown adamp upon the markets , “§ 1 in addition 1 0 1144 has been said of the rais ing of a forced loan, we find it stated in the Antwerp papers • ' s date, that the War Minister h 1 • of yesterday a( ;;s k ke orders for the immediate fortificatio tl of thi; ciiadel at that place, and of thapeighlooring lOrtq, as well as all others tbrgughgut the 14,g,(10m. It appears also that the army is to be very considerably increased. Conse.l',', 'Aeit t 93i to for the opening, E.xcheqneil 449 at 645. to 66 5 . P rem., and 1344 Stock at 90. T In the Vgreign Market Outch Five per Cent. stoOk. was done at IclOi to and Belgium at IN decline in the foriner does not exceed i f per Cent., but in the latter the variation is full per Cent. on the closing price of yesterday. Active Spanish Bonds, with the over due interest, were done at 16 to Five re; -i'Ortu , 4 , ThceF pr c r pent. -ditt o 10 to qpd Dra -77'10 Great Western Railway Shares were quoted at 101 to 11 prem. ; London and Brighton 3i to i discount ; Lon- don and Greenwich (new) to discount ; and the scr ip of Ryan's Patent Anti•Dry-Rot Company 4to per share. British North American Bank were done at 11 to prem. per share. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. TATTERSALL'S-YESTERDA r. THE DERBY. The approach of Christmas shows itself here in the decreasing numbers of subscribers present on the last two or three betting days. Business yesterday afternoon was not altogether without interest, inasmuch as Flambeau, Tros, and Wapite were on the rise, but there was not enough done, nor were the alterations suf ficiently important to require any additional notice. The favou rite was backed for a hundred and fifty pounds at 11 to 1, and the odds afterwards offered, but not currently. The closing prices were as follow :- 7 to 2 agst John Scott's lot—take 4 to 1 8 to 1 agst John Day's lot—take 10 to 1 11 to 1 agst Lord Jersey's Brother to Bay Middleton—taken and afterwards offered 15 to 1 agst Lord Jersey's Ilderim—offered 16 to 1 agst Duke of Rutland's Flambeau—take 17 to 1 20 to 1 agst Mr. Bowes's Accelerator—offered 22 to 1 agst Lord Albemarle's Tros—taken 26 to 1 agst Colonel Peel's Dey of Algiers--offered 26 to 1 agst Colonel Anson's Zimmerman—offered 33 to 1 agst Mr. Wreford's Wapite—taken 1000 to 15 agst Mr. Thornhill's Maria colt—taken 1000 to 10 agst Captain Williamson's Melbourne 750 to 100 agst Flambeau, Wapite, and Bloomsbury—taken 425 to 25 agst Wapite and Bloomsbury—taken 15 to 1 agst Epidaurus and Zimmerman—taken LATEST BETTING AT MANCHESTER. DERRY BETTINS. 10 to 1 agst Lord Jersey's Brother to Bay Middleton 18 to 1 agst Lord Jersey's Ilderim 20 to 1 agst Mr. Bowes's Accelerator 25 to 1 agst Lord Albemarle's Tros—taken freely 25 to 1 agst Colonel Anson's Zimmerman 30 to 1 agst Colonel Peel's Dey of Algiers—taken THE NEW POOR LAW. Deputy PEWTRESS, who has been exerting himself so energetically with respect to the poor, waited upon the Lord Mayor to congratulate his Lordship upon the success which had attended the decided course adopted by the Chief Magistrate regarding the destitute objects found in the public streets. The experiment, the Deputy declared, had been most satisfactory in its result, and proved that the law, properly administered, was fully adequate to supply a complete remedy to the distressing evil. He was happy to be able to inform his Lordship that the Guardians of the City of London Union had readily received and relieved the numerous destitute persons who had been sent to them by his Lordship and the officers of the city, and he most warmly expressed his acknowledgments to the Guardians of that Union and to Mr. Rowsell, the Chief Clerk, for their valuable assistance and kind co-operation. It appeared that they had resolved to appoint another relieving officer, whose principal duty it would be to attend to cases of des titution and urgent necessity ; and he had been informed that the guardians of other Unions in the metropolis were making arrangements to meet all cases of deplorable misery which presented themselves within their jurisdiction. The Strand Union had already opened a part of their premises for the temporary reception of the poor destitute creatures who seemed to be without resource at all, and he was satis fied, if there should be a cordial co-operation between the Magistrates, the police, and the guardians of the several Unions, these wretched objects would speedily be relieved, and disappear from the public streets altogether. The LORD MAYOR was much gratified, and glad to hear that there existed such strong hopes of effective co-operation. Deputy PEWTRESS begged to state that it was with re gret he perceived, by the reports from the various police offices in the daily papers, that many of the Magistrates were not aware of the power they possessed under the new Poor-law Act. They were armed with adequate authority to maintain their honourable position, and to enforce their authority in such a manner as to compel adequate relief to be afforded to those who were in absolute want of it. It was true the law did not allow the Magistrates, under the new Act, to deal with poverty ; they could only deal with crime. Therefore, whenever a destitute per son, in the first instance, was brought before a Magi strate, the Magistrate was powerless, and must inform the applicant that he had applied to the wrong autho rity ; but the Magistrate might call an officer and say to him, " Go to the relieving-officer, or to the master of the workhouse, with this destitute person, and tell him to state his case, and, in the event of refusal of relief, bring him back to me." In that position the law empowered the Magistrate, and, after hearing the complaint of the appli cant against the officer, the Magistrate was empowered to make an order for relief, which, if disobeyed, subjected the officer to the penalty of 51. . The LORD MAYOR was convinced that in the city of London the most accurate experiments would be made as to the working of the law. Deputy PENTraEss said that he had seen with regret a report in which Mr. Campbell spoke of the probable nece.- sity for opening the Refuge Asylum for the Houseless Poor. The opening of such a place would be just in the teeth of the working of the Act, as incalculable masses of the idle, and of those who did not relish the idea of applying for parochial relief, would crowd to the metropolis if it were once known that the Refuge was to be opened. Every body knew that Mr. Campbell's motives were un questionable, but the suggestion was exceedingly injudi cious. If the funds were flourishing, the most advisable way of disposing of them would be by enabling poor fami lies in the city to purchase coals and potatoes through the winter at reduced prices. Mr. RICHARDS, the master of the City Union Work house at Peckham, stated that he had waited upon the Lord Mayor for the purpose of informing his Lordship that Peter Jordan, whom Mr. Campbell had introduced a day or two ago as a person deserving of sympathy, was an im postor of the first class. After the Deputy and the Master of the City Union Workhouse had retired, the Lord Mayor was somewhat sur prised at receiving a petition, signed by one hundred and seventy-six of the Paupers of the City Union Farm-house, Peckham. The petition is addressed to the Lord Mayor, whose in terference for the removal of an alleged amouut of suffer ing and grievous wrong, is prayed for. After reading the paupers' petition, The LORD MAYOR asked if any of the officers of the Union were in the house ; and, upon being informed in the negative, said that he had received the petition from the paupers of the farm-house at Peckham, and should certainly attend with the most particular care to the complaint. The appeal was of such a nature as he should never be found to neglect or postpone, and he should visit the petitioners at an early hour next morning where they were domiciled. A esterday afternoon, about half-past three o'clock, as J. Godsall, Esq., of Caroline-place, St. John's -wood-road, was riding on a spirited horse along the Park-road, Re gent's-park, the animal stumbled, and came down with such violence that Mr. Godsall sustained a compound fracture of the right thigh. lie was removed in a state of severe suf fering to his residence. Yesterday Inspectors Penny and Jenkins intimated to Mr. Burrell, the Magistrate of Hatton-garden, that they had made inquiries in Baldwin's-gardens, Gray's Inn-lane, relative to the alleged murder of a woman by her husband, in referenco to which an anonymous letter had been sent to the Magistrates of that office. The result of their in vestigation was that the woman had been repeatedly ill-used by her husband, and that she had expired after a short ill ness. They had inquired of the surgeon who had attended her, and were informed that she died of consumption. Mr. Burrell inquired whether a coroner's inquest had been held upon the body? The inspector replied in the negative. Mr. Burrell suggested such an investigation was necessary, and directed that Le should be informed whether an inquest would be held. Between six and seven o'clock on Wednesday even ing an infuriated bullock, after passing over London-bridge, ran at a horse attached to, the first cab on the rank oppo site St. Saviour's Church. The cab was turned completely round, and the driver had a most miraculous escape with life. The animal had not reached the end of the rank be fore he ran at a man named Henry Sparrow, who was feed ing one of the horses, threw him on the ground with great violence, and before the least assistance could ho rendered, gored him under the left arm in a most shocking manner. The poor fello w was i nstant l y conveyed to St. Thomas's Hospital, wh en , on examination, his skull was found to be dreadfully fractured, and the wound under the arm between three and four inches in depth. But very slight hopes are entertained of his recovery, as ho has been bleeding pro fusely from the ears ever since his admission. The owner of the bullock is not at present known. Yesterday afternoon as a labourer named William Mortal, in the employ of Mr. Muggeridge, builder, of South wark, was at work at a house in the Brixton•road, his foot slipped, and he was precipitated on to the flag-stones from a height b,etwn forty and fifty feet, He was conveyed to c.:`,uys Hospital, when, unTil ONArkiiiriation, it was found that the whole of the ,p )A ihe, lett side were completely driven in, beside., oi:k4. severe injuries. He lies with hut slight heJ 9,1 recovery. orA n Wednesday last, a female, lately residing in Scotland-yard, di...! petlaaoo iss public at Walton Church, by order of kkw Vc4lesiastical Court, for defaming the cha rao4 o,i. her neighbour. It is many years since such an occurence took place ; the white Aeet, however, was not enforced. This should t\o a warning to the fair sex who are troubled with aa evil tongue. This singular sm e ex _ cited poiAsOerable interest in those who witnessed w kit i erpool Mercury. THE M indow in Brick-l ane , White chapelv.Nhib:iits the hollowing scrawled on a sheet of paper pd doze and boots and shoos bort or taken in exel l a uge . N.l3.—Fride fish alwais req. FRENCH CORN AVERAGES. The following are the official average prices of wheat in France for the month of November in each year during the undermentioned twenty years, from 1819 to 1838, the whole reduced into English measure and money : Per Hectolitre. Per Qr. Per Hectolitre. Per Qr• f. c. s. d. f. c. s. d. 1819...15 4 equal to 34 5 1829...21 97 equal to 50 4 1820...19 60 42 10 1830...22 49 51 6 1821...15 28 35 0 1831...22 52 51 7 1 1822...15 71 36 0 1832...17 96 41 1823...15 58 35 8 1833...14 95 34 3 1824...14 74 35 9 1834...14 88 34 1 1825...15 79 36 2 1835...14 43 33 1 1826...15 58 35 8 1836...17 26 39 6 1827...20 22 46 4 1837...17 75 40 8 1828...22 55 51 8 1838...21 92 50 3 The average of the whole period is 17f. 81c. per hecto litre, which is equal to 40 s . 9d. p er quar t er , an d it will be further remarked— 1. That the return of 1835 is the lowest of the whole period. 2. That the return of 1828 is the highest of the whole period. 3 That the return of the present year exceeds the return of the preceding year by 9s. 7d. per quarter. 4. That the return of the present year exceeds by 9 3 .6 d. per quarter the return of the whole period. To compare the average prices of wheat in France with those of England and Wales, it is necessary to add 20 pet cent. to the latter for difference in the quality of the wheat: and the difference in the mode of taking the averages, and it then appearing that the average price of wheat in Eng' land and Wales for the six weeks ending the 30th ult. is 71s. 6d. the quarter, this, with the addition of 20 per cent.' makes 85s. 10d., and the average price of wheat in France for the same period being 50s. 3d., it follows that wheat is 41.46 per cent. lower in France than in England. The average price of wheat at Paris for the preceding month of November is 23f. 63c. per hectolitre, which so' savers to 545. Id. per quarter. THE MARKETS COUNTRY CORN MARKETS DURING THE WEEK W heat. Barley. ! Oata. ISea..a. S. to * _ .... 30 3 2 38 --• 38 0 s. to s. 73 SO t 6 74 Per Quarter. Blandford Pease• EL tO a. 37 46 42 44 40 42 64 38 42 30 34 35 42 30 32 31 43 35 42 38 48 s. . a. to a. 35 25 27 26 24 30 ir; I :.: 34 25 61 84 128 34 20 22 56 70 34 381 24 29 58 78 16 20 58 68 26 32 20 24 56 67 22 31 16 20 62 72 24 31 19 28 64 79 28 31 19 28 59 72 35 42 22 29 58 70 30 34 20 23 .... 65 70 36 38 22 28 4I 43 63 74 24 30 18 28 32 44 63 72 — l3O 32 _ , EVIZES CORN MARKET.—Oec. 13 Per Sack. s d. s. d. Per Quarter. s. d. IL I First Wheat 4l oto 43 0 Barley 30 oto 40 0 Second 36 0 39 0 Oats 2O 0 97 0 Third 1463 Sacks of Wheat sold 1 37 6 Flour (per bag) 5B 0 60 0 at the average of Bread (per ga11.)... 1 9 -- 0 LEEDS CORN MA RKET.— Dee. 11 Wheat, Norfolk and Sala, 601 b. Barley, Norfolk and Sulthlk Yorkshire and Lincoln s hi re Beans Grinding 28s. to 30s. 1. 631 b. Oats, Potatoe 275. to r s. —Mealing, For. 11d. toll'id Shelling Eng. 12(1 3 . 05 t . 0 t 1 0 3 33 d..p . e per st i o ovi nt. Rapeseed, English , 301. to 321 .... Foreign, 30. to 221. per W. L.VERPOOL CORN MARKET.—Dec. U. WHEAT, English, White, per 70Ib. ..........................1 Red —.. Scotch, Welch, an d M anx --- Irish, White lO 9 II 0 ------- Red 9 0 /0 9 ..--- Foreign OATS, English, Welsh, and Scotch, per 451 b Irish ... 3 6 3 A 9 Foreign 0 0 0 " BARLEY, English, Malting, per Imp. quarter 42 046 0 ---.. Scotch and Irish, per 60Ibs ---. Feeding 5 3 5 9 BEANS, English, per Imperial quarter 4B 0 50 0 . Irish, &c 44 0 46 0 Foreign PEASE, English, per Imp er i a l quarter 5O 0 54 0 Th --.. Foreign FLOUR, English, per 2801 b. - Irish INDIAN CORN, per 4401 h. .... 3B 0 4 2 9 Rya, per Imperial quarter l6 0 40 0 MALT, per Imperial quarter IMPORT OF GRAIN for the Week ending Dee, 10. Wheat. Oats. I Barley Flour. Qrs. Qrs. Qrs. IForeign, Br's.' I rtsh, &c. Scks.l oa4nleaL Loads' 21,481 24,771 2,331 3,V50 I 3,250 20,,.-- Chard Huntingdon —.— Long Sutton.,—.. Louth. y nn— Newark 32 34 - V Nottingham eeterbormigh - Plymouth ----v... Sleafonl r ~. Uppingham Wisbech. .... ... .... ... ... . • ... ••• THE NEW FEMALE NOVrLIST.—Mr. COlbl lo has just added another writer to his list, who will unques tionably take her place among the most eminent that We preceded her. The title of her work is " The Oeli f Daughter." It exhibits features of extreme beauty delightful p rom i se . And now, who and a nd what is tbe writer ? M r . Gleig, in an apologetic intr oduction . infor l us %. own% --rh e O n l y Daughter " is the production of a vier. girl —of one brought up in seclusion, unacquainted Wit h the world, and therefore, destitute of stores from which to draw in the construction of her tale, except those wbil her own ge n i us , an d an i ntu i t i ve perception of right ae. wrong in human character, could supply." This mere gir l will yet ran k ( says a contemporary critic) amongst t hose _ brilliant w omen upon w h om, i n th i s happy age, nature b bestowed suc h d e li g h t f u l g if ts, and who have emPillell them so enchantingly. This first production of a g irl's P e a would have b een h a il e d as a proof of glorious matur ity T o and twenty years ago. Five and twenty years hence , ber author may (if she chooses) look back with pride uP°9, t. career, as that of an admired and ever-weicome GREAT ADVANTAGE TO LARGE CONSUMER — TEA. TEAS at WHOLESALE PRICES, in quan titiei_ no o t f less than one poun d , i n tin cases of 6lbs. net, or small c h e st' 12Ibs. and upwards. To afford every facility to large consumers, to whom this 3 , r dv e er i; tisement is add resse d , not l ess than one pound of Tea or C°l-th, made at thi s es t a bli s h ment, as the small profits will not admit ° usual division of quantities made by retail houses. G. T. MANSELL and CO., WHOLESALE DEALERS, 2, Bucklersbury, Cheapside --- i n ' PLATE.—A. B . SAV ORY and S- nsoU Manufacturing Silversmiths, No. 14, Cornhill, (opposite th ,, e o ll of England), o ff er th e b est r i ch SHELL-BORDERED St', or WAITERS, of every si ze , w i t h p l a i n centres, at 9i. per On" with chased centres, at 9s. 6d. per ounce. rl. Price, with Chased Centres. Diameter. Oz. L :" 0 A round F ilver W a it er , w i t h s h ell border, 8 in. 12 at 9s. 6,1 t 5 i 4 1 S A round Silver Waiter, with shell border, 9 17 9 1° 0 A round Silver Waiter, with shell border, 10 20 15 5 0 A round Silver W a it er , w i t h s h ell border, 12 30 10 1 , 0 0 A round Silver Waiter, with shell border, 15 42 40 1 ' 0 A round Silver Waiter, with shell border, 18 S 6 ~A 15 a r." , • .. A round Silver Waiter, with shell border, la 124 ten° The Plate rooms of this Establishment, which are el prices Platedd f pr ices contain a large and choice selection of Silver Plate, and every article requisite to complete a service. List ° _,,,io o ' gratis. A. B. Savory and Sons, Manufacturing Save" No. 14, Cornhill, London, opposite the Bank of England. cOA ti LONDON MADE WATCHES.-- • 404 SAVORY, 47, Cornhill ( S even doors from Gracech ureb-,,,d10e London, offers a v er y l arge S tock of Silver Watches at t he ing prices ( Warranted) : Superior Watches on the Vertical Construction, jewelled, with hand to mark the seconds , 0 double backed eng i ne-turned cases £4 4 Watches on the celebrated patent-lever con struction, jewelled in four holes, capped, hand to mark the seconds, double-bottomed engine- 0 g turned cases 6. vll 6 0 13 b Either of the a b ove construct i ons in hunting-as" . 10s. 6d. extra. Second-hand Watches taken in exchange. s e BIRTHS. the / On the 12th inst., i n Ch es t er -street, Grosvenor-place , Yept of Henry Whitt a k er , E sq . , o f a son. At Ina Grove, Camberwell, the lady of Mr. Bak er Smith, of a son. On the 10th inst., at Notting Hill, the lady of Fre derick ,eorg e Bray, Esq., of a son. On the 10th inst., at Kent-terrace, Regent's Park, 310- " James Clifton, of a daughter, still-born. Gar . M John 9 On the 12th inst. at Hillingdon Church, Middlegel!,f Distil, ratt, jun., Esq , eldest son of John Garratt, ESQ. , '' veto'n E Co sq u . r,, of D i e i v ii o li n n , gd t o o n. Anne, fourth daughter of Richar d A u dre' f r , h. On the 12th inst., at St. George's, Hanover-sq uare,- o e n 'ly aa li g M‘Lean, Esq., M. D., of the 64th Regiment, to Clarats_uare. ter of Henry flarison, Esq., of Percy-street, Bedford- DIED. , ti Per On the 7th inst., at Edinburgh, age d 39, the Hen' • 1.5. 14:ir" / ries, the wife of William Young H err i es, E sq . of Spo tte ' 'a ltro V cudbrightshire, and daughter of th e l a t e Ad m iral Lord de of rez, G. C. B. On the ist ult., at Kingston, J ama i ca, Si m on Tayloro, , Esci e. ^ la t s Pleasant Hill Estate, in that i s l an d , an d sec ond son f i' John Taylor, Esq., of Kirkto n Hill , N ort h Britain. On the 4th inst., at Glocester, James Helps, Esq. rs l: Ma i l' relict of the late Captain W. N. Hart, 79th R On the 7th inst., at Newnham, near Cambridge, aged •'... faa tri, On the 9th inst Es q., the se On the 9th ist, in London, Joseph Swan Graves Chamney wan, Es f eg i rac at of 11 ' 0 0l n Park, Dublin. Bristow, On ; q. o ewtow _ sq., __ e d 6a. _, On the 9th • in . inst., Warren-street, Fitzroy-square, ." Sat Bi ighton, John Herrion, .14: _N is , $ ri le ag l eod iei . nst., ad 9, Laura Gertrude, ,„ k „hter ° sixth dal', Thomas Harrison, Est" of the Alpha-road, Regent's rar • gee po On the I Ith • '' -daughter of W . C. L. inst., Sarah, second Es o f • , Gower -street, Bedford-square. f Cann °o' n the Ilth inst , Mr. Nathaniel Ward Bowers, o • P e street, aged 85. • o wls On the 11th inst ,at Leicester-place, Mr. John Fr Gex, agod 66. . Fran k" 7 Oil the 11th inst., in Windsor-place, City-road, I‘l l . the St°' aged 69, widow of the late John Franklin, Esq., ° ~ II a t Jo- , To On the 9th inst., in Holywell-street, Oxford, Charles_d, Bishop, Esq., AI.D., one of the Physicians to the l'a s' Infirmary. of 11° On the 9th inst., at Guildford, Charles Cobb Young, _....1 places, Chelsea, Esq London Printed and Published by M GRDO e YOUNG, sot ot 1 112, Strand, at The Sun Office, No 112 , Strand, la t h Middesex.—Friday, December 14, 1538.